EDMONTON, Alberta – The Ducks will attempt to stretch their win streak to a season-high four games when they take on the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place on Saturday night.

John Gibson (8-7-3) will make his third straight start against a team he’s had plenty of success against. Gibson, who has allowed only two goals on 68 shots in two victories, is 4-0-0 with an impressive 0.75 goals-against average and .973 save percentage in four games against the Oilers.

In getting wins over San Jose, Montreal and Vancouver, the Ducks (12-8-4) have tightened up their defensive game and allowed just four goals total. They’ve killed off eight of the nine man-down situations that have come up. And that has given Ducks coach Randy Carlyle some level of satisfaction.

“We’ve cleaned up some of the areas over the last little while that we felt defensively we had to limit the opposition if we could,” Carlyle said. “Keep [shots] to the outside. Limit the scoring chances. Don’t give them so many opportunities on the power play. All those things. And just execute to a higher level and play faster.

“Those are the things that we’ve tried to focus on. I don’t know if you can say we’ve done a complete turnaround but we’ve been better in some of the games, in parts of the games, of doing that.”

The usual names aren’t doing the goal scoring for the Ducks, who are exactly in the middle of the pack in averaging 2.58 per game. Rickard Rakell (nine), Jakob Silfverberg (eight), Ryan Kesler (eight) and Cam Fowler (seven) lead them, as Corey Perry (four) and Ryan Getzlaf (two) have struggled to put the puck in.

Jared Boll will move back into the lineup on the fourth, with Chris Wagner sitting out. Boll was scratched in the last two games and three of the last four. Joseph Cramarossa (knee) went through the team’s mandatory morning skate Saturday but won’t play.

Here is the expected lineup for the Ducks:

Rickard Rakell-Ryan Getzlaf-Corey Perry

Andrew Cogliano-Ryan Kesler-Jakob Silfverberg

Nick Ritchie-Antoine Vermette-Ondrej Kase

Ryan Garbutt-Logan Shaw-Jared Boll

Cam Fowler-Sami Vatanen

Hampus Lindholm-Josh Manson

Shea Theodore-Kevin Bieksa

The Oilers (13-10-2) stopped a three-game losing streak with a 6-3 win at Winnipeg on Thursday as they try to exact some revenge against Anaheim, which got a 4-1 win at Honda Center on Nov. 15.

In scoring six goals for third time this season, Edmonton scored three times on the power play. Fourth-line center Mark Letestu had two of those, while Leon Draisaitl had the other as he also scored twice.

NHL leading scorer Connor McDavid is scorching. McDavid had three assists in the win over the Jets to extend his point streak to seven games and has totaled six goals and 15 points during that run.

McDavid has held scoreless on just six occasions, with the Ducks doing so in the season’s first meeting. Carlyle will work hard to get Kesler out against him, but Oilers coach Todd McLellan will have last change this time around and might do what he can to get McDavid away from the shutdown center.

“Obviously he’s a very talented player,” Carlyle said. “A very special player from a speed standpoint. He’s a kid that you think he’s fast and then he’s got another gear. He’s got a tremendous amount of ability and it’s great to see for the game of hockey. A young kid like him coming in and stepping up, taking the league by storm.”

Cam Talbot (12-9-2, 2.58 GAA, .915 SV%) will play for the 24th time in 26 games. Talbot stopped 23 of 27 shots against the Ducks in the November loss.

An improved blue line took a hit as McLellan told reporters Saturday that Darnell Nurse will be out long term. Early reports are that Nurse may have a broken bone in his foot after blocking a shot Tuesday against Toronto. Edmonton GM Peter Chiarelli is expected to give a more detailed report before the game.

Veteran Mark Fayne jumps in for his first game since Oct. 18. Fayne, who was on waivers last week, suffered a knee injury in that contest against Carolina. The Oilers also brought up Dillon Simpson from Bakersfield (AHL) to serve as an extra defenseman.

Defensemen Brandon Davidson (shoulder) and Eric Gryba (undisclosed) are also out. Adam Larsson, in his first season with the Oilers after being acquired for Taylor Hall, will play in his 300th NHL game.